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Does aneuploidy cause cancer?
Current opinion in cell biology - 1 Dec 2006
Weaver Beth A A, Cleveland Don W
Abstract excerpt
Aneuploidy has been recognized as a common characteristic of cancer cells for >100 years. Aneuploidy frequently results from errors of the mitotic checkpoint, the major cell cycle control mechanism that acts to prevent chromosome missegregation. The mitotic checkpoint is often compromised in human tumors, although not as a result of germline mutations in genes encoding checkpoint proteins. Less obviously,...
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